Brilliant Mining starts drilling at Michikamau
2006-08-03 10:45 ET - News Release
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Mr. Mike Sieb reports
BRILLIANT COMMENCES DRILL PROGRAM; MICHIKAMAU NI-CU-PGE PROPERTY, LABRADOR
Brilliant Mining Corp. has commenced an initial 12-hole 1,000-metre core drilling program at the company's 100-per-cent-owned Michikamau Ni-Cu-Co-PGE project located in west-central Labrador. The drill program will test several distinct high-quality nickel targets confirmed and refined by a recently completed geophysical survey (as reported in Stockwatch on July 24, 2006).
The drill program is planned to test seven conductive zones refined by a high-resolution AeroTEM airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey. The conductive zones form part of two distinct trends observed within the survey area striking north-south for five kilometres and east-west for greater than two kilometres in length. A total of 27 individual conductors within the zones were modelled with drill priority assigned to those targets of sufficient size, exhibiting classical nickel sulphide signatures. All of the selected drill targets have been modelled in close proximity to the surface, with the tops of the conductors not exceeding a depth of 75 metres below surface.
About the Michikamau property
The Michikamau property covers 116.5 square kilometres along the southern margin of the Michikamau layered gabbro-anorthosite (troctolite) intrusion. This intrusion is considered to be highly favourable for hosting Ni-Cu-Co-PGE mineralization. It represents a conceptual and empirical exploration target for Voisey's Bay-type mineralization. The company has identified 27 high to medium conductors on the property, hosted in troctolite within the interpreted throat feeder zone. The largest conductive zone encompasses an area measuring 800 m by 1,000 m. The best exploration targets are near-surface, shallow-dipping, strong conductors with coincident moderate-high magnetic responses. The property is proximally situated to existing infrastructure, including the Churchill Falls hydroelectric facility.
The project is supervised by Rob Carpenter, PhD, PGeo, a director of Brilliant, and is the qualified person as defined in National Instrument 43-101. All pertinent work permits have been approved. Lantech Drilling Services of Dieppe, N.B., has been contracted to perform the drilling. InnuEx Resources Ltd., an Innu business partnership registered with the Innu Business Development Centre, has been contracted to provide logistical support to the project and Apex Geoscience Ltd. of Edmonton, Alta., has been contracted to oversee the drill program.
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